Olympicsnell

More4 is getting on my nerves now. Show live sport please.
 
(Yes, I know it as available on YouTube)

Day 1 - 29th August 2024 
 
All times BST
 
08:00 - Archery - Women's Individual W1 - Ranking Round - Victoria Kingstone (6th)
08:10 - Badminton - Mixed Doubles SH6 - Group Stage -  Shephard/Choong (L 14-21, 12-21) vs  Subhan/Marlina 
08:44 - Swimming - Women's 400m Freestyle S9 - Heats - Toni Shaw (Q6)
09:28 - Swimming Men's 100m Butterfly S14 - Heats - William Ellard (Q1), Cameron Vearncombe (Q7)
09:30 - Boccia - Men's Individual BC1 - Group Stage -  Smith (W 5-2) vs Oliveira 
09:30 - Basketball - Men's Tournament - Group Stage -  (W 76-55) vs 
09:35 - Swimming - Women's 100m Butterfly S14 - Heats - Louise Fiddes (Q7), Poppy Maskill (Q1), Olivia Newman-Baronius (Q3)
09:45 - Table Tennis - Women's Doubles WD14 - Quarterfinal -  Korneliuss/Slettum vs  Pickard/Twomey (W 3-0)
10:30 - Table Tennis - Men's Doubles MD18 - Round of 16 -  Chudzicki/Misztal vs  McKibbin/Stacey (L 2-3)
10:30 - Rugby - Open Tournament - Group Stage -  vs  (W 58-55)
10:31 - Swimming - Women's 200m Freestyle S5 - Heats - Tully Kearney (Q1)
11:00 - Track Cycling - Women's C4-5 500m Time Trial - Qualifying - Kadeena Cox (Q2)
11:30 - Badminton - Men's Singles SL3 - Group Stage -  Bethell (W 2-0) vs  Czyz 
11:45 - Basketball - Women's Tournament - Group Stage -  vs  (W 69-34)
11:55 - Track Cycling - Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit - Qualifying - Dafne Schrager (Q2)
12:00 - Archery - Women's Individual Compound Open - Ranking Round - Jodie Grinham (4th), Phoebe Patterson-Pine (7th)
12:00 - Table Tennis - Men's Doubles MD14 - Round of 16 -  Karabardak/Shilton (W 3-0) vs  Dourbecker/Messi
12:41 - Track Cycling - Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit - Qualifying - James Ball, Stephen Bate (Q2) Neil Fachie
12:45 - Table Tennis - Men's Doubles MD14 - Round of 16 -  Bayley/Perry (W 3-0) vs  Rau/Schnake 
12:45 - Table Tennis - Men's Doubles MD4 - Quarterfinals -  Jang/Park vs  Davies/Matthews (L 0-3)
13:00 - Boccia - Men's Individual BC3 - Group Stage -  Arnott vs  Wilson (W 5-3)
13:30 - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles XD17 - Round of 32  Stacey/Twomey (W 3-1) vs  Alabi/Obazuaye 
14:45 - Track Cycling - Women's C4-5 500m Time Trial - Final - Kadeena Cox (DNF)
15:40 - Badminton - Men's Singles SH6 - Group Stage -  Shephard (L 2-0) vs  Lin
15:41 - Track Cycling - Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit - Gold Final -   Dafne Schrager (L) - SILVER vs  Wang  Xiaomei  
16:00 - Boccia - Men's Individual BC4 - Group Stage -  McGuire (W 8-0) vs  Abdul Rahman
16:00 - Archery - Men's Individual Compound Open - Ranking Round - Nathan MacQueen 6th)
16:00 - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles XD7 - Round of 32 -  Matthews/Shackleton (W 3-1) vs  Chen/di Toro
16:13 - Track Cycling - Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit - Gold Final -   Stephen Bate (L) - SILVER vs  Bangma 
16:40 - Swimming - Women's 400m Freestyle S9 - Final - Toni Shaw (5th)
17:00 - Badminton - Men's Singles SH6 - Group Stage -  Chu vs  Coombs (L 1-2)
17:10 - Boccia - Women's Individual BC2 - Group Stage -  Taggart (W 10-1) vs  Leon 
17:10 - Boccia - Women's Individual BC2 - Group Stage -  Jeong vs  Haggo (L 1-3)
17:30 - Table Tennis - Women's Doubles WD14 - Semifinal -  Pickard/Twomey (L 1-3 - BRONZE)vs  Huang/Jin
17:36 - Swimming - Men's 100m Butterfly S14 - Final - William Ellard (SILVER), Cameron Vearncombe (8th)
17:42 - Swimming - Women's 100m Butterfly S14 - Final - Louise Fiddes (6th), Poppy Maskill (GOLD), Olivia Newman-Baronius (4th)
18:15 - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles XD7 - Round of 16 -  Matthews/Shackleton (L 0-3) vs  Bruechle/Mikolasche
19:30 - Boccia - Women's Singles BC3 - Group Stage -  Oliveira vs  Kidson (W 5-1)
19:45 - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles XD17 - Round of 16 -  Stacey/Twomey (W 3-0) vs  Chojnowski/Marszal
19:46 - Swimming - Women's 200m Freestyle S5 - Final - Tully Kearney (GOLD)
 
Summary
Daily Medals - 2G 3S 1B - 6
Total Medals - 2G 3S 1B - 6
 
Tokyo Daily Medals - 1G 4S 1B - 6
Tokyo Total Medals - 1G 4S 1B - 6
 
GB Gold Medal events - 7
 
 
Day 1 of the 2024 Paralympics starts with a bang, with lots of GB competitors across a range of different sports. 
The first watchable action will see Jack Shephard and Rachel Choong face the Indonesian reigning world champions of Subhan Subhan and Rina Marlina at 08:10 in the badminton mixed doubles SH6. The first guaranteed medal could come after the women's doubles WD14 quarterfinals at 09:45 which features 14 year old Bly Twomey and Felicity Pickard. Twomey faces a Paralympics baptism of fire with a potential 4 matches on the cards. 7 swimmers are in action from 8:30 in the heats, all of whom will be hoping to make it through to the evening finals session. GB are in action in 3 track cycling events, and have 2 reigning world champions hoping to add Paralympic titles to their CVs. Kadeena Cox could win the first finite medal at 14:45 in the women's C4-5 500m Time Trial, where she is the 2 time defending world champion. Boccia, badminton and table tennis matches keep the GB interest up through the day, and all 3 teams will begin their medal campaigns as well. Day 1 is rounded out by the swimming programme, where GB boast 2 world number 1's and World record holders as well as global medalists in all 4 events with GB entrants in the session.

Dan Evans 
 
Longest match in US Open history and 4-0 down in the 5th set
 
Did he inherit murrays comeback powers by playing his last match with him? 

3 with a diving catch to the top right corner  (I still don’t know anyone’s name )
 
That was some highlight reel stuff. 

I've literally just started watching but im going to guess for turnover purposes? If they intercept then they need to have the flag stripped? but i havn't watched a game or read the rules so....

WOW

Final day of the U23 part of the world championship and that was a pretty impressive show

Women’s Four Final GOLD!
Men’s Four Final GOLD!
Men’s Quad Final 6th
Men’s Eight Final GOLD
Women’s Eight Final GOLD!
 
We had 10 GB crews, 7 Made Finals, 5 of which won gold. Both eight crews and four's dominated. The final U23 Medal table looks like

  5    0    1
  4    1     3
  2    1     1
  2    1     0
   2    0    0
   1     3    0
   1    2    1
 
 

GREAT news! 
 
All of the matches for the Olympic Qualifier will be live-streamed on IIHF YouTube, free of charge!
 
https://youtube.com/@iihf?si=8z-RCFsnSOCqWmQy
 
For all non-competing countries at least, pretty sure it won’t be streamed for all, some probably have rights to their matches or the whole event through various broadcasters and streaming services. 
 
Iesim Latvija !!  (Šilovs & Bługers in particular) 

Overall Predictions
 
 
Gold Medals
 
Sport Lower total Predicted total Upper total Archery 0 0 3 Athletics 5 10 20 Badminton 0 1 3 Boccia 0 2 4 Road Cycling 4 7 10 Track Cycling 5 6 11 Equestrian 0 2 5 Judo 0 1 3 Canoe Sprint 3 4 6 Triathlon 1 1 3 Powerlifting 0 0 0 Rowing 1 2 3 Shooting 0 0 0 Swimming 11 15 25 Table Tennis 0 1 8 Taekwondo 0 1 3 Basketball 0 1 1 Rugby 0 0 1 Fencing 0 0 6 Tennis 1 1 2 TOTAL 31 55 117 For context, the predicted result would be up 14 golds on Tokyo but down 9 on Rio, and would almost guarantee second on the medal table behind China. For context of how strong China is, they won 96 golds in Tokyo, so GB would need 82% hit rate on gold chances to beat them. 
 
 
Total Medals
 
Sport Lower Total Predicted Total Upper Total Archery 0 2 4 Athletics 12 30 40 Badminton 0 3 5 Boccia 0 3 6 Road Cycling 5 12 20 Track Cycling 7 14 19 Equestrian 0 5 9 Judo 0 3 3 Canoeing 6 8 9 Triathlon 1 4 6 Powerlifting 0 1 2 Rowing 3 4 4 Shooting 0 0 3 Swimming 20 35 43 Table Tennis 0 5 13 Taekwondo 0 3 3 Basketball 0 1 2 Rugby 0 0 1 Fencing 0 2 10 Tennis 1 2 4 Total 55 137 206
From my predictions, it looks like GB will easily meet their medal target and potentially beat it. This result would be 13 more medals than Tokyo but 10 less than Rio, following the same trend as the gold medals.
 
There is a chance that GB will beat their Rio results but it will likely depend on the fine margins of sport.

GB doing bits in the transfer market, hope we make a trade for summer mcintosh next 

With the opening ceremony of the 2024 paralympics just a week away, I thought I would give a sport by sport preview of the GB athletes competing and their medal chances.
 
Great Britain are sending 215 athletes in 19 sports and have been set a medal target of 100 - 140. For context, in Tokyo, they sent 227 athletes and won 124 medals, including 41 golds.

I'm offering to date the entire Dutch women's hockey team if that would help Britain in its quest for Olympic gold....

I believe His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will perhaps suggest mercy to His Majesty the King of Australia. His Mjaesty the King of Canada may wish to intercede at some point, I wonder if he has the other Kings' numbers...

Banned? He should be executed! He's a traitor to his King!

Yeah, the way I see it, is that he is equally proud to be British and Australian and was always intending to compete for both nations at some point in his career. I would assume that, given he has started dating Finucane , he thought he would speed up that process and hope to give himself a kickstart into the GB set up.  

OR he has been planning this for a while, and was honest enough to race for australia at the olympics and win them a sack full of medals getting them a good return for their investment. 

If you think team Australia didn't know that he had applied to switch to GB pre olympics then you should wise up.

Name like that, obvious Scottish ancestry, time for Fabrizio romano...HER WE GO....

GB doing bits in the transfer market, hope we make a trade for summer mcintosh next 

GB doing bits in the transfer market, hope we make a trade for summer mcintosh next 

That's utter madness. GB suddenly have 2 and 3 of the top sprinters alive, the dutch have 1 and 4...
 
Penny for the thoughts of cycling australia - actually don't need a penny, I've read them already, super giant huff!

Not sure where to post this since I don't want to just stick it in the music thread, but I have to say I absolutely loved Eurosport's Paris 2024 theme, which they played throughout. This really added to my overall experiences and memories of the Games. It sounds very dramatic and menacing at times, in a good way, but just loved it
 
 

GB doing bits in the transfer market, hope we make a trade for summer mcintosh next 

Not really sure where else to put this but Matthew Richardson has switched nationalities from  to  
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-2KNF5ONxw/?igsh=MTIxdTRrMTRiZTN1

Matthew Richardson 🇦🇺 is going to be representing Team GB going forwards. Game changer! 

Some events were much easier to listen to on BBC, for all their faults. Some were better on RTÉ! And some were better on Eurosport. While ina  few, the Radio nearly was better than the telly.
 
In athletics, I like Cotter, Crammy and Jasmin, and Backley is pretty good too - I think Sawyers understanding of the Jumps is a real help to him, and I'd be disappointed if this doesn't end up her career after track is done - she has the knack. Merry on the radio is absolutely excellent.
 
In swimming, I preferred the two Andy's just. Triathlon, despite the screw ups is BBCall day long.
 
Diving is about 50/50 - Leon really brings great emotion and he clearly knows the sport, but the overall info is better on ES
 
Equestrian, much preferred ES, as I did with Canoe and rowing, Climbing and, oddly, Golf. BBC better for tennis.
 
Both BBC and ES are excellent on cycling, either was great.
 
All in all, Discovery+/Eurosport was a bargain, all things considered - obviously 2012 style BBC saturation fo free is better, but there are much worse propositions than D+